Happy Urban Gold Miner

Happy New Year Everyone!

That's pretty much all I have to say today. I was stumbling around searching for an idea for a new website and typed in urban gold miner. I found a whole bunch of stuff there but one thing I wanted to show you is this.

It looks to me like the guy has found a way to pick up a few extra bucks without getting his hands too cold. This time of the year it beats being in the Bush squatting in a creek shuffling a gold pan around.

Maybe I will look into giving it a try!!

Something to think about anyway.

How to Find Nuggets on Bedrock

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Hello everyone.  I do not have a lot for you today but found this short article that I am sure you will enjoy.

It is from a site in British Columbia, Canada and as you know there has been a lot of gold hauled out of the ground there.

I want to be sure to write about things that you will be interested in so if you can would you consider sending me any ideas you have?

I hope those of you that live in snow country are doing OK.  I am sure you are, prospecting makes for some very self reliant people so you are probably the ones out helping the less prepared get through the crisis.

The nice thing about helping others is the feeling of satisfaction that comes from knowing you made a difference.

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Trim it down to size with a light bulb

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Trim it down to size with a light bulb.


This entry means nothing.  It is being done at the request of Pay per Post.

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'Coons Panning on the Porch

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I was sitting in the living room reading last night when I heard a little rattling sound.  I bet you know what it was?  That is right - it was a couple of Raccoons on the porch.  One of them - the Boss - I call him is as big as a cocker spaniel.  He has an apprentice who is probably this years pup.  The apprentice is only about 10 -2 pounds or so.  The Boss is 20 minimum.

I was looking at them through the window and the Boss stood up on his hind legs and almost said "feed us you idiot".  So I did.  They ate 2 cups of cat food in less than 5 minutes and left.

But - they are back tonight!  I took pity and gave them more grub.  I am not going to do it again.  When I was about 13 years old me and a friend caught a Coon with the idea we would tame it.  That was not a wise thing to do.  After placing the very pissed off animal in a log cabin in my buddy's back yard we proceeded to harass it and thinking if we gave it food it would start to like us.

It liked the food but did not forget who put it in the unfavorable position it was in.  It finally got it's chance and bit my friend.  Lucky it was not a serious bite but it made us decide that Bobby (the Coons name) was better off in the woods, so we let him go.

They are incredibly dirty animals - not litter trained like a cat, and even though you think they wash the food they eat and from a distance they look so cute they stink.

That is all there is about that, they are not panning for gold just dipping the food like police do with donuts.

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I'm Just Trying Something Here

I'm going to try to embed a video and have never done before so I'm doing it now to see if I get it to work right.

This is a funny one I found about dogs sliding downhill and snow. It made me laugh.

Here goes:

I'm going to check in now.okay I didn't get it right there. Let me try something else.

Okay I see how you do it now. The experiment is over. I'm sorry there's nothing here about gold panning but you'll probably get a kick out of the video.

My Bet on Cable

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Good evening all.  I have made a bet that GBPUSD will go up in price.  My bet was placed at 1.5735 my R line is at 1.5950.

Lets see if I can get close. I will update this in a while.
I have lost my Zemanta and am going to have to figure out how to make it work with Chrome. See you in a while.

OK I got Zemanta back. I am going to have to log off now and go to another Blog and install it there.

Back again, as i was gone Cable ran up a bit but not anywhere close to my line.

There is nothing like a good run of luck at a card table.  I don not play Poker as I find it boring. I prefer Blackjack, it is fairly fast and I don't get bored for about 1/2 an hour or so.

For some real fast action Chem de Fer or Baccarat is some fun.  Chem de Fer is road of steel in English.  Funny name for a card game.

I guess I will be pulling my money off the table here.  Mr. Cable has given me 18 pips and I do not want to give it back.  Cashing out at 15758 + 23 pips.

How to Make Your Own Classifier

Not the one you will make, just a picture of a bucket classifier I got off the net.



There is a great explanation on how to build a cheap set of classifiers for use with a 5 gallon pail.

I do not have much more to say except that I built on in the garage and it took about 1/2 hour and works good.

The nice thing is you can make as many and whatever screen size suits your location.

If you can find a place with lots of 5 gallon buckets they want to get rid of you are set.

So if you are tired of classifying in your pan when you are out sampling take a look HERE.

Prospecting and Exploring for Gold Panning Sites

Image via WikipediaProspecting and exploration that is a search for precious metals deposits is not a simple process because big deposits were discovered a long time ago. There are several places with important content of precious metals waiting for skill prospectors. The large mining companies of the world are focused in big deposits and the small deposits are attractive for small miners and perhaps their interest for gold is the most valuable tool for exploring new deposits.

Gold is a very widely disseminated throughout nature and may be found in any geological formation from the oldest rocks to the deposits that are still being formed, but in common with other metals, it is more likely to be found in the oldest rocks and in those places where the earth crust has undergone the most extensive changes such as elevations, folding, tilting, faults, fissuring and also volcanic action, with resulting changes in the composition and texture of the rocks.

The current technology is very important in development new project and exploration of new deposits begins with the selection of a target area. This is followed by reconnaissance exploration in which satellite remote sensing; geological mapping and seismic techniques are used. In turn, this is followed by detailed geophysical studies and later, a detailed drilling, sampling, assaying and mineralogical study. Gold deposits are sought with many techniques, but they are based on geochemical studies. Commonly more than one method is employed. With these methods, the geologist is looking for anomalies. Perhaps, the most important techniques are photogeology and seismic techniques.

Gold Panning Store in BC

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I am not sure what is going to happen with this. There was an icon on my toolbar that I pressed and it took me here.

I was looking at this guys store in Kelowna, BC. He looks to have a lot of stuff you would have to order from the USA or "States" as they say.

Here is the link I think. I am not to pleased with this so will probably get rid of the icon when I am done with this entry. I think I get the idea of the icon - it makes a blog about the page you are on? I was looking at a gold panning store in BC.

miners-buy-sell: "fredsgoldpanningstore.com"

Some Prospecting Definitions

Image by Oregon State University Archives via Flickr I don't have much to say today except gold has gone up and looking at my charts now it's 1407.75.

What I am going to do today is put up a few definitions that prospectors and placer miners use when they're talking about their claims.

Flour gold. This is also called Gold dust.    It is defined as gold that is so fine that it looks and feels like flour or dust.

Hard rock mine. This isn't something you will be too concerned about during your recreational gold panning but I thought we might as well throw it in anyway. A hard rock mine is a tunnel was dug into solid rock for the purpose of finding minerals particularly gold and silver.

Placer mining. This is the type of mining you will be doing with your pan hopefully finding a few nuggets which we will define later. It involves mining gold that's been washed away from its source and deposited in sandbars and small cracks  in bedrock. Generally this involves rivers and streams but if you can find an old riverbed that is now dry and figure out where it used to run it is a very good place to find gold.

Your tools will be not in any particular order a rocker box, dredge, shaker table,  sluice box, drywasher, and of course your trusty gold pan. You will also need some water. However you don't necessarily need it at the place where you're doing your work. You can sort your material and carry it home and do your final cleanup and processing in your garage  or garden. This is the way most people do it because you can classify air or at the  site and do the sitdown work-at-home.

By the way - prospectors have a word for this classified material, you will hear them refer to "cons". This is short for concentrates.

You can learn more about recreational gold panning HERE.   hope you found this useful and watch this space please.

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Where Did the Gold Go?

Image via WikipediaI had a really good entry all typed out  Ready to go and pressed transfer and it just disappeared.

It was all about gold and how it mysteriously disappears. You know what I mean you find a really good Creek. You do a little sampling and it come out good. Now your gold pan only holds a couple of shovelful's so if you can get that much gold in two shovelful's you better go back  and get your 5 gallon pails and fill them up.

Up in the morning and down to the creek, out with a shovel and fill the pails.  You classify it to a quarter  of an inch.

Luke where did you come from? You snuck in there all by yourself did you? You say you're going to pan this batch out? Great, get  at it.

One half an hour later...  how's it going with you Luke? You're ready for the final cleanup! Let's see what you've got. Lotta black sand in there that's a good sign I think. Give her the final swirl when can let's see what happens.

Excellent! As I was shoveling I was thinking this was cannot be another one of those where did the gold go? Expeditions. I'm sure glad you came along, you probably bought lock with you. Let's get that gold into the bottle. We can probably do a couple more  buckets before we leave. The water will be high next week and we will be able comeback to this exact spot so let's get as much done as we can now.

The Hobby of Gold Panning

Image via WikipediaGold panning as a hobby.

With the price of gold over $1350 a lot more people have become interested in panning for gold as a hobby. I was in a hobby store that sort of specializes in goldpanning equipment a few days ago and they had actually run out of a certain brand of goldpan. The owner was saying he sells seven or eight a day sometimes where that used to be a month sales.
It looks like the time has come for gold panning. he was telling me that what used to be a hobby for some people is now actually earning them 40 or 50% of their income because of the high unemployment. At this moment the gold is sitting at  $1389. That's more than $50 a gram. In a good stream a person who knows where to look and easily make two or 3 g a day. That's tax-free to!
Eastern Nevada, Idaho, and Montana are all known gold states. Of course California has gold to and Eastern Oregon is exactly empty especially around the Baker city/Sumter area. Washington state has gold but there's never been a really big run. And then of course British Columbia to the north of Washington is well known as a source of gold.
Another way to make some money from the new interest in gold panning is to sell  gold panning equipment. Like the store owner that I was referring to earlier. If you  do a search for gold panning you can see there's a lot of people selling it but there's always room for one more as they say. I noticed quite a few of the people selling have affiliate links and are picking up some extra cash by people clicking and buying.
It is a known fact that the people made the most money during all the famous North American gold rushes where the merchants selling stuff whether it was food, liquor, mules and horses, and of course services. He should give some consideration to this before you go thrashing around in a creek looking for the elusive nugget.
Of course you could just open up an online trading account and bet on gold going up or down it doesn't matter you can bet either way. A lot of people use their Forex accounts for this because the Forex trading companies have started to include silver and gold in their offerings. These are highly geared accounts so little bet has the potential to make you a lot of money.
So you can see there's several ways to get in on the new 21st century gold rush. The thing you have to do is decide how you're going to participate and then take action and hopefully make some money on the hobby of gold panning.

Basic Gold Mining Equipment for Recreational Prospectors

Image via WikipediaGold panning and mining is a great hobby, and the good news is that the basic gold mining equipment for the weekend recreational prospector is not going to cost you a fortune.



So if you are hankering to get out there and find some gold for yourself, you can round up your basic gold getting equipment quickly and cheaply.


Online stores can show you the basic gold panning tools you need, and save yourself the trouble of finding a local store that actually stocks such things. Even in gold country, it can take a bit of research to find a store.


So, what are we looking at for the basics?


Obviously, a gold pan. Can't get more basic than that. Gold pans come in different shapes and sizes and features. A real simple little black plastic pan can be had for about three and a half to five dollars, depending on the size. The larger green or blue plastic pans can range from maybe eight dollars up to over twenty, depending on the kind of built in features the pan has - and its size.


One feature that is a must for any good pan is that it have riffles formed into one or more sides of the pan. These make it much easier to retain the gold as the gravel is passed over the lip of the pan in the panning process to reduce the amount of material in the pan.


I recommend the space age durable plastic gold pans over metal pans.
Plastic is lighter, doesn't rust, and is much easier and faster to learn on than the metal pans.


You may already have some of the equipment you need. A sturdy bucket,
like a five gallon one. A digging tool, like a garden shovel or garden trowel. Some people like the small folding GI shovels.


A nifty little gold panning tool is the plastic snuffer bottle. For maybe two or three dollars, you have a little suction device to slurp up the gold that appears in the bottom of your pan.


You might want to use a gold screen, called a classifier, to reduce the size and amount of gravel you will be panning. Placed over the top of your big bucket, you screen out the larger rocks, so your panning material is more concentrated. Your panning is now more efficient and you will lose less gold out of your pan.


Finally, a gold vial in nice for showing off your gold. These can be glass or plastic. With a little water in them, your gold will have a pretty bright color, and you can tantalize your friends with your findings.


One last thing. If you are new to gold panning, it's always a good idea to get good information to help you become more knowledgeable. There are a number of good prospecting books out there that offer great tips and guidelines to make your outdoor gold adventure more fun - and productive.




And that about sums up your basic gold mining equipment needs.


Edwin Brown is a long time chaser of gold in the outdoors. To learn more about how to find gold and see some videos of people getting gold, check out his website at http://goldpanningsupplies.net/

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Short-term trading strategies

Image via WikipediaSwing traders-if you are interested in swing trading, any sort of trade is going to be based on a long-term trading strategy. This is where you are going to be using trading software, or even indicators like price levels, Bollinger bands, stochastic indicators etc. You may also calculate the momentum over a longer term period, before you make any sort of decision to buy or sell.

Short-term trading strategies — A day trader normally uses beneficial and profitable short trading strategies. He also looks at instantaneous signals for profitable trading. The idea is to get into the market as quickly as possible, when the currency is riding a strong wave. Sell that particular currency, make a quick profit and buy a weaker currency. This trading strategy and plan is going to implement the use of the right momentum. An experienced FX trader is also going to recognize profitable price patterns, based on his experience. A number of traders look at short-term trading frames, and do their business transactions on retracements, price levels and Fibonacci.

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I Have Been Mining in the Forex Market

Image via WikipediaI have been making some bets using a UK based sprea betting company in the Forex and Gold markets.

I joined this program to get some basic knowledge and then gave it a test. So far it has been OK.

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Okay Here's the Gold Panning Book Excerpt for You

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Gold Gold Gold Gold!

Bright and yellow card and cold
Molton, grave, hammered, rolled,
heavy to get, and light to hold
stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled.
Some lines from a poem from somewhere. They kind of ring true.
This is true today.
An interesting fact the yield of precious metal in California since 1847 up to 1888 amounted to 256,000,000 pounds.
Every prospector should understand elementary geology so far as general knowledge of the history of the structure of the Earth's crust and of the several actions that have taken place in the past, or are now in operation, modifying its conditions.
He may go a few steps further and learn to classify the various formations into systems, groups, and series.
It is advisable to learn something about the occurrence and appearance of the valuable minerals and the formations in which they are found. I recommend Cox and Rashid's "Mines and Minerals" which deals largely with the subject and is therefore particularly valuable.
If you're all alone don't forget your gold pan and shovel. I also advised you to visit this website. HERE

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A Couple of Real Interesting Books for You to Read

Through another website I found a couple of really good books about gold. I have downloaded them and will be posting excerpts here from time to time.

The only problem I'm having is transferring them to my iPhone so I can read them. It seems like something is really messed up my computers. They used to be nothing to this and now it's become a problem.

I'm working on it anyway and as soon as I get it going I'll let you know.

Betting on Cable

Image via WikipediaLast night I was doing a little Forex spread betting.
I had decided that there was a good chance that Cable (GBPUSD) was going up and placed a bet on it.
Of course you know what happened, it went down. Being a smart bettor I got out with a 26 pip loss.

Of course I was right so I bet again. This time I was so right that I decided to take 2 positions. You guessed it... It went down again. I was having a hard time admitting I was wrong so I let my loss go to 50 pips. By then I was down 100 pips - 2 positions 50 each.

But I was still right and had to prove it again. This time I thought it would make a big, fast run up so 1 position would get me back my losses. It went down and I dropped 24 more pips.

Stay with your plan!!  I was out on my first bet and should have gone to bed. You cannot "get even" with the market. If it says it is going down, it goes down. Betting against it will not change it.

I had a plan, implemented it and when it went against me I had an exit plan. I executed my plan correctly the 1st time. Then I went nuts!!!

Again - Stay with your plan.

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Mobile blog entery

Hello readers. I am testing mobile blogging. I have nothing to say.
Gold is at 1339.6 as I write this on my little wee keyboard. Please
bear with me if you spot any errors. 1339.85 now.
Test over

I Have Started a Website

WWW.RecreationalGoldPanning.com

A nice day's work

It is a small site for now but with the help of some readers I am hoping to grow it.
The url is www.recreationalgoldpanning.com it should be scoped by the somethings in a day or so.
There is nothing to see yet but I am working on it.
Meanwhile back at the blog...

Recreational Gold Panning

The title explains the site.

If you want to get out and enjoy some fresh air while making a few bucks, Recreational Gold Panning is for you.

This gentleman is having fun, join in!

Now grab a pan and get going.

I guess you are wondering where to go? That depends on where you live. As time passes I will be adding more and more of just the kind of information you need.

As they say in radio - "stay tuned to this Blog".

Thanks for looking and I look forward to having you visit again.